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“Contemporary Ex-votos: Devotion Beyond Medium” Reception

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Shedding fresh light on the understudied iconographic and ideological aspects of traditional Mexican ex-votos — votive retablo paintings — this exhibition features art by contemporary Latinx artists from the United States and Mexico. Curated by Dr. Emmanuel Ortega. The exhibit runs April 19 through November 23. Enjoying The List? Become a member today!

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Andrea Abi-Karam

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is reading with Andrea Abi-Karam, author of Villainy, Extra-transmission, and co-editor of We Want It All. Andrea Abi-Karam is a trans, arab-american punk poet-performer cyborg. They are the author of EXTRATRANSMISSION (Kelsey Street Press, 2019) and with Kay Gabriel, they co-edited We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics (Nightboat Books, 2020). […]

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Artist Talk: Tony Lewis and Joe Reihsen

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Meet two artists who are working at the forefront of contemporary painting and drawing. Tony Lewis and Joe Reihsen will be joining us to talk about their innovative use of mediums “stretched, smudged, rubbed, spliced, and folded“ or allowed “to splash and pool according to the forces of gravity and the tension between liquid and […]

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Work in Progress

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Work in Progress is a live reading and art aucution. Several artists, including Dominque Conway, Michael Hanson, Destiny Pinder-Buckley, and Tanya Shirazi, will be presenting readings. The event, hosted by Brent Holmes and with auction assistance by Hue, will also feature vending by Witness and Hasta Siempre. Artists such as Clement Gelly, Charlie Joy, Katie […]

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Canceled Neon Lit

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Neon Lit is a reading series featuring talents from UNLV's Creative Writing Program reading fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as a live art auction and vendors.    

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Art for the People

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Bid on affordable art in time for the holiday season in this in-person auction, which features a range of drawings, prints, paintings, and more for you to take home this December. The live art auction also includes free refreshments, musical entertainment by the emerging operatic tenor LaVell Thompson, and an opportunity to view some of […]

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Event Series Artist Lecture Series

Artist Lecture Series

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a series of artist talks organized by UNLV’s Department of Art. Artists Kyla Hansen, Jason Lazarus, and Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions will be traveling to Las Vegas to talk to our community about their individual practices and what it means to make art today. (Pictured: artist Jason Lazarus, with an artwork by […]

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Bradleigh

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Las Vegas-based musician Bradleigh brings his genre-fluid jazz-infused sound to the Barrick with guests Max Zeitland and Davey Martinez. The List relies on you to cover our expenses and pay our hard-working curators. Become a supporter today!

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Event Series Artist Lecture Series

Artist Lecture Series

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a series of artist talks organized by UNLV’s Department of Art. Artists Kyla Hansen, Jason Lazarus, and Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions will be traveling to Las Vegas to talk to our community about their individual practices and what it means to make art today. (Pictured: artist Jason Lazarus, with an artwork by […]

Free

Event Series Artist Lecture Series

Artist Lecture Series

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a series of artist talks organized by UNLV’s Department of Art. Artists Kyla Hansen, Jason Lazarus, and Donald Farnsworth of Magnolia Editions will be traveling to Las Vegas to talk to our community about their individual practices and what it means to make art today. (Pictured: artist Jason Lazarus, with an artwork by […]

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Dry Heat: Issue 3 Launch Event

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

To celebrate the publication of Dry Heat: Issue 3, this is a launch event with readings from some of the writers (Scott Dickensheets, Chase R. McCurdy) and an introduction from the guest editor, Jennifer Kleven. Dry Heat: Issue 3 explores the theme of public art, with new essays by Sapira Cheuk, Dickensheets, Sarah Lohman, McCurdy, […]

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artLIVE!

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

The artLIVE! program features a fashion show highlighting local designers, art activations, entertainment, food and beverage, and a vibrant silent auction. This event supports LVFC in raising funds for the Las Vegas Fashion Council Scholarship Fund. Enjoying The List? Become a member today!

$35 – $50

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Fall 2023 reception

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This reception at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art welcomes three new exhibitions: "The Emotional Show," "Lined and Torn: Paper Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection," and "Tailings." "The Emotional Show" explores some of the different techniques artists have used to grapple with the amorphous and demanding territory of human emotions. "Lined […]

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“Modern Desert Markings”

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

"Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art" is an exhibition that uses contemporary perspectives to critique five historic works of Land Art located in the deserts of Southern Nevada. Curators Katie Hoffman and Hikmet Sidney Loe have selected ten artists from around the United States to produce new work inspired by […]

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Dry Heat Launch: Art Writers Panel

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a celebration of the second issue of the Dry Heat art journal with a live panel event on May 19. Three local artists—Anthony Bondi, Brent Holmes, and Laurence Myers Reese — will discuss the significance of art writing in Las Vegas and beyond. The new Dry Heat features writing by Las Vegas-based artists […]

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Just Fluxing With You: Vol. 8

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Visit the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art auditorium at any time between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m. on Friday, May 12 and be immersed in a collection of new Fluxus-inspired video and audio artworks by students from Yasmina Chavez’s intermedia art class. Just Fluxing With You: Vol. 8 features work by Mordecai Agbeletey, Angel Arenas, […]

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PhD Fellows Reading

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

This is a reading event showcasing UNLV Creative Writing's PhD Fellows. Readers featured: Jumi Bello is a Washington DC native who is a writer of consciousness. Through formal experimental narrative structure, her fiction wanders in the realm of mental illness, race, social institutions, and memory. She published two poetry chapbooks while studying history at Grinnell […]

Contested Americans

UNLV Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art 4505 S. Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV, United States

Mixed-status families are front and center in national debates about undocumented immigration and American citizenship. Yet, members of mixed-status families, including adult-age Americans of undocumented parents, are rarely included in conversations about these heated debates. Drawing on qualitative data with members of mixed-status families, "Contested Americans: Mixed-Status Families in Anti-Immigrant Times" examines how these Americans […]

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